[3.1] Ele Buzzsaw – Elemental Spectral Throw Ranger (Raider)

Intro & build description

For those who want a solid all-around build, that has it all – EleBuzzsaw is a way to go. Very fast clear speed, good boss killer and exceptional scaling are some of the things this build has. I am very sure it will fare well in new content that comes with 3.1 (Abyss and Elder).

If i could find a problem with this build, is that Vaal Pact nerf in 3.1 did make it more squishy. Btw, the belt should be a Stygian Vise rare, and use abyss jewels (flat dmg and life) to boost the build by quite a lot

Ahh, could i also ask why do the projectiles look completely different in the video footage of this build, than they do in my build, in my build theyre very small, and they look huge here, is that an item, gem, or passive tree effect? Sry, not a veteran ^^

Hey, got my elemental resistances capped and all there is left is chaos resistance at -60%, should i aim to increase that, or is it rly a no big deal? As I’ve googled chaos damage is mostly damage over time effects and so

You have very damage-heavy gear, which I’m not saying is a bad thing, but yeah, can be tough getting more HP that way. If I wanted more tankiness, I’d focus on flat elemental damage-heavy abyss jewels while getting as much life on gear as possible – Abyss jewels are extremely strong for the build currently, 2 jewels can basically have dps of an elemental claw. % Elemental damage would also be much more effective in scaling if there was more flat ele damage.

I’d drop the Charisma and Herald of Ice and grab 2 jewel slots. Each jewel slot can potentially be worth 4-5 nodes if you can get decent jewels which shouldn’t be that hard. Even 1 jewel would give you tons more damage than Herald of Ice. Here are some examples of very strong damage jewels ( http://poe.trade/search/hanamotaharesa )

so far with re-gearing a bit, I have gone up to about 5170 life and only lost about 500 damage unbuffed (tooltip unbuffed is still about 49.5k with GMP). Wonder if you see a way I could hit 6k hp, that would be a giant improvement if possible or do I need to go that high?

Nice! Hmmm, 6k HP seems to be a bit high for the build and for its playstyle. If you want to push it, you could try getting a few hundred Energy shield on top of life by getting energy shield + evasion bases but that could get expensive.

so far with re-gearing a bit, I have gone up to about 5170 life and only lost about 500 damage unbuffed (tooltip unbuffed is still about 49.5k with GMP). Wonder if you see a way I could hit 6k hp, that would be a giant improvement if possible or do I need to go that high?

Personally I haven’t done Varunastra build but I hear they can be great damage-wise plus with higher life than average build with such dmg. But with how expensive the weapon is, you could make anything work with that kind of budget.

In the passive tree – you are so close to VItality Void and Hematophagy – why not pick these up for extra leech and solve all sustain/tankiness problems? I remember picking those up really helped my HOWA build, back when that was still a thing :P. YOu could supplement the extra skill points by sacrificing either the Bravery path for 10pts, or the Writen in Blood route for 10 pts? Thoughts? Really curious, plz reply.